{"id":186649,"date":"2024-04-02T16:27:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-potential-of-ultrasound-and-antibodies-for-alzheimers-disease-therapy"},"modified":"2024-04-02T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:27:24","slug":"the-potential-of-ultrasound-and-antibodies-for-alzheimers-disease-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-potential-of-ultrasound-and-antibodies-for-alzheimers-disease-therapy","title":{"rendered":"The potential of ultrasound and antibodies for Alzheimer\u2019s disease therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KMfvakIm-X4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Professor J\u00fcrgen G\u00f6tz and Dr Pranesh Padmanabhan from the Queensland Brain Institute comment on the successful human trial by the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute which found a five-fold reduction of amyloid-\u03b2 in Alzheimer\u2019s patients.<\/p>\n<p>The latest trial results underscore the safety of using\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The potentially powerful combination of ultrasound and antibodies for the treatment of Alzheimer\u2019s disease is the focus of a News &amp; Views article by UQ\u2019s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) researchers.<\/p>\n<p>QBI <a href=\"https:\/\/qbi.uq.edu.au\/profile\/1513\/j%C3%BCrgen-g%C3%B6tz\"> Professor J\u00fcrgen G\u00f6tz<\/a> and his team aim to develop low-intensity ultrasound into a treatment modality for Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Ultrasound can be used with microbubbles to achieve <a href=\"https:\/\/qbi.uq.edu.au\/brain\/brain-anatomy\/what-blood-brain-barrier\"> blood-brain barrier opening<\/a> for drug delivery, or it can be used without bubbles to modulate brain function.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/the-potential-of-ultrasound-and-antibodies-for-alzheimers-disease-therapy\">Continue reading \u201cThe potential of ultrasound and antibodies for Alzheimer\u2019s disease therapy\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor J\u00fcrgen G\u00f6tz and Dr Pranesh Padmanabhan from the Queensland Brain Institute comment on the successful human trial by the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute which found a five-fold reduction of amyloid-\u03b2 in Alzheimer\u2019s patients. The latest trial results underscore the safety of using\u2026 The potentially powerful combination of ultrasound and antibodies for the treatment of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}